Cuba：Its Past, Present, and Future

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Author: Arthur D. Hall
Published: 1898
Language: English
Wordcount: 41,755 / 131 pg

  
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The natives, which were still left, had learned to be skilled in preserving the meat by means of fire and smoke, and they called their kilns \"boucans.\" The smugglers, besides obtaining what they desired for their own use of this preserved meat, established an extensive illicit trade in it. Hence, they obtained the name of buccaneers.

Spanish monopolies were the pest of every port in the New World, and mariners of the western waters were filled with a detestation, quite natural, of everything Spanish.

Gradually, the ranks of the buccaneers were recruited. They were given assistance and encouragement, direct and indirect, by other nations, even in some cases being furnished with letters-of-marque and reprisal as privateers.

The commerce of Spain had been gradually dwindling since the defeat of the so-called Invincib

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